The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 278 pp691-722 No 7456
16 June 2007

Jobs and Classified advertising

Leading Articles   692

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Reluctance to dig deep 692
Last month, The Journal requested — under Freedom of Information legislation — sight of “Economic analysis of pharmacist regulation”, the confidential report prepared on behalf of the Department of Health by NERA Economic Consulting to inform the deliberations of the Carter working party. The report was made available this week
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Hospital pharmacists stand and be counted 692
After last week’s election of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Officers, an outsider might be forgiven for thinking that the organisation is focused on community pharmacists
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News & Features   693-700

News summary, including R&D  693-699
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Lead stories
-Economic analysis suggests Society should evolve
-Society sets timetable for consultation with membership over future
-Society rejects primary care trust performers' lists
-Independents believe Pfizer's single wholesaler distribution model puts them at a disadvantage
-New Scottish Government starts to outline policies
-Cardiovascular risks of rosiglitazone still unclear
-Pharmacy overlooked in commissioning proposals
-Eltrombopag priming maintains platelets in hepatitis C

Advising Parkinson's disease patients 700
This week The Journal publishes an evaluation of community pharmacists providing advice to people with Parkinson's disease. Matthew Wright talks to some of those involved with the pilot study and describes how one of the PCTs that took part is taking the work forward as an enhanced service
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Products   701

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Products   701
-SPC changes
-Products miscellany
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Announcements   701
-Independent prescribing conversion course (Keele)
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Product recalls   701
-Viracept
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Broad Spectrum   702

Why the pharmaceutical industry should get into bed with academia 702
By Dave Sharma
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Letters   703-706

-White Paper
-Liberal professions
-Pseudoephedrine
-Substance misuse
-Monitored dosage systems (MDS)
-Counterfeit medicines
-NHS
-Women in pharmacy
-Technicians
-Retention fees
-The Journal
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Agenda for 2007   707-708

Agenda articles

Now that we see what Pandora's box contains, where do we go from here? 707-708
In this article, Alan Rogers, of Epsom, Surrey, reflects on recent developments in health professional regulation and considers how the Royal Pharmaceutical Society could approach its future in the light of the Government's demand that it separate its regulatory and professional functions
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Original papers   709-712

A pilot evaluation of specialist community pharmacy services for patients with Parkinson’s disease 709-712
By Geraldine Mynors, Crispin Jenkinson, Virginia MacNeill and Richard Balcon
Aim — To undertake a preliminary evaluation of a community pharmacy scheme in which Parkinson’s disease patients could contact local specialist pharmacists about their Parkinson’s disease medicines
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Meetings   713

Reports index

British Association of Pharmaceutical Wholesalers
“Whither wholesaling,” asks the BAPW 713
Questions surrounding the future of pharmaceutical wholesaling in light of recent changes to the supply chain were discussed. Matthew Wright reports
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Onlooker   714

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Health services in Iraq are on a downward slope 714
An editorial in the 2 June issue of The Lancet paints a grim picture of the health situation in Iraq today. Deterioration is proceeding at almost every level of the health service
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The bird that thinks its two notes are a song 714
It is emphatically cuckoo time once again, although this year it strikes me as later than ever before. As Thomas Gray put it in 1748, “the untaught harmony of spring” is sounding
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Dealing with a stupid and unhealthy habit 714
An editorial in the 5 May issue of The Lancet offers support for the recent recommendation by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence that employers should provide smoking cessation support for their employees
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Roguish pleasure 714
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June Council meeting
Council meeting reports

June Council meeting 715
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Society to protest that public safety will be put at risk by new legislation 715
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Council members seek greater veterinary pharmacy content in the education and training of pharmacists 716
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Council to proceed with revision of content of pharmacy education 716
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Quality management feasibility study for the preregistration scheme 716
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Council members query DoH claims for Carter report 717
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Criteria for complaint referral may be reviewed 717
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Museum policy is updated 717
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Society needs to focus on members, says President 718-719
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Concern that Colin Ranshaw's resignation leaves Council without a hospital pharmacist 719
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Draft Regulations on special resolutions are gazetted 719
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Welcome to new members 719
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Technicians' health declaration 719
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Council may review identity requirements for registration 720
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Council approves guidance to support Code 720
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SOCIETY NEWS

Health checks offered at youth eisteddfod 720
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New book on preparing to apply for a preregistration training position 720
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Official notices 2001 to present

Council by-election in Wales 721
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Regulation on Special Resolutions 721
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Statutory Committee inquiries 721-722
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Academic Pharmacy Group Committee election 2007 722
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Diary
Diary / Health events

Branch meetings 722
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Future events 701
-Smoking cessation (June/July)
-Fixed dose combinations (21 June)
-Risk management (June)
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Awards 701
-Pharma Awards
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Resources 701
-Chlamydia
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